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    Managing Risks with Newer Oral Small Molecules in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) is challenging; thus, the need for newer therapeutic options with an oral route of administration has led to the development of novel small molecules drugs (SMDs)...

    Malek Ayoub, Shivani Mattay, Andres J. Yarur in Current Gastroenterology Reports (2024)

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    Perianal fistulizing Crohn’s disease: Current perspectives on diagnosis, monitoring and management with a focus on emerging therapies

    Crohn’s disease (CD), a chronic inflammatory bowel disorder, manifests in various phenotypes, with fistulizing perianal CD (CD-PAF) being one of its most severe phenotypes. Characterized by fistula formation a...

    Jalpa Devi, David H. Ballard, Tina Aswani-Omprakash in Indian Journal of Gastroenterology (2024)

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    Association Between Vedolizumab Levels, Anti-vedolizumab Antibodies, and Endoscopic Healing Index in a Large Population of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between serum vedolizumab (VDZ) concentrations and antibodies to VDZ (ATV) in a large cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Furthermore, we e...

    Andres J. Yarur, Parakkal Deepak, Niels Vande Casteele in Digestive Diseases and Sciences (2021)

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    Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 variants to neutralization by monoclonal and serum-derived polyclonal antibodies

    Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. Rapidly spreading SARS-CoV-2 variants may jeopardize newly introduced antibody and vaccine countermeasures....

    Rita E. Chen, **anwen Zhang, James Brett Case, Emma S. Winkler, Yang Liu in Nature Medicine (2021)

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    Bariatric Surgery Is Acceptably Safe in Obese Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

    The prevalence of obesity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has increased over the past decades. Data to support the safety of bariatric surgery (BAR) in IBD remain scarce. Our aim was to evalu...

    Fateh Bazerbachi, Tarek Sawas, Eric J. Vargas, Samir Haffar in Obesity Surgery (2018)

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    Isolated Acute Terminal Ileitis Without Preexisting Inflammatory Bowel Disease Rarely Progresses to Crohn’s Disease

    Isolated acute terminal ileitis without chronic features of inflammation poses a diagnostic challenge. Few studies have investigated the clinical significance of this entity in patients without history of infl...

    Chung Sang Tse, Parakkal Deepak, Thomas C. Smyrk in Digestive Diseases and Sciences (2017)

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    Crohn’s disease diagnosis, treatment approach, and management paradigm: what the radiologist needs to know

    Crohn’s disease is one of the major subtypes of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease and is characterized by chronic transmural intestinal inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract anywhere from mouth to the...

    Parakkal Deepak, Sang Hyoung Park, Eric C. Ehman in Abdominal Radiology (2017)

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    Update on the Medical Management of Crohn’s Disease

    The medical management of Crohn’s disease is a rapidly evolving field with expanding therapeutic drug options and treatment strategies. In addition to corticosteroids, immunomodulators, and anti-tumor necrosis...

    Parakkal Deepak, David H. Bruining in Current Gastroenterology Reports (2015)

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    Assessing the likelihood of new-onset inflammatory bowel disease following tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitor therapy for rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

    The association between inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and the onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) i...

    Asha Krishnan, Derrick J. Stobaugh, Parakkal Deepak in Rheumatology International (2015)

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    Ischaemic Colitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Tumour Necrosis Factor-α Inhibitors: An Analysis of Reports to the US FDA Adverse Event Reporting System

    Tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) inhibitors are immunosuppressants, approved for the treatment and maintenance of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Immunosuppression has been shown to induce ischaemic colitis (IC) in...

    Allison Salk, Derrick J. Stobaugh, Parakkal Deepak, Eli D. Ehrenpreis in Drug Safety (2013)

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    Concomitant antibiotic usage does not augment the risk of inflammatory bowel disease with isotretinoin treatment for acne: a review of the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System

    Derrick J. Stobaugh, Parakkal Deepak in European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (2013)